| Intro | Egyptian film director |
| Was | Film director |
| From | Egypt |
| Type | Film, TV, Stage & Radio |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1911 |
| Death |
1986 (aged 75 years) |
Niazi Mostafa (Arabic: نيازي مصطفى) was an Egyptian film director.
Samīr Farīd, author of 1978 Dalīl al-sīnimā al-ʻArabīyah (دليل السينما العربية 1978), wrote that Mostafa was one of “[t]he most important directors in the history of Egyptian cinema”.
In 1936, he directed several promotional documentaries for Misr Bank group companies.
Works
- Salama Is Safe or Everything is Fine (1938) – Salama fi khair
- Mr. Omar (1941) – Si ʿOmar
- The Wife Factory (1941) – Masnaʾ al-zawgât
- Rabha (1943) – Râbha
- The Valley of Stars (1943) – Wâdî al-nougoum
- Hababa (1944) – Habâbah
- Hassan and Hassan (1944) – Hasan wa Hasan
- The Magic Cap (1944) – Tâqiyyat al-ikhfaʾ
- Mohamed-Ali Street (1944) – Châriʾ Mouhammad ʻAlî
- My Daughter (1944) – Ibnatî
- Antar and Abla (1945) – ʿAntar wa ʿAblah
- The Human Being (1945) – al-Banî âdam
- Miss Boussa (1945) – al-Ânisah Boussah
- Son of the East (1945) – Iraqi-Egyptian co-production – Ibn al-Chark, Le fils de l’Orient
- A Glass and a Cigarette or A Cigarette and a Glass (1955)
- Pleasure and Suffering (1971)
- Without Pity (1971) – Bilâ rahmah
- Searching for a Scandal (1973)
- A Girl Named Maĥmood (1975)
- Hereditary Madness (1975) – Magânîn bi-l-wirâthah
- The Delinquents (1976) – al-Mounharifoun
- First Year of Love (1976) – Sanah oulâ houbb – Co-directed by Mostafa, Salah Abou Seif, Atef Salem, Kamal al-Cheikh, and Helmi Rafla
- ^ Armes, p. 158.
- ^ Armes, p. 159.
- Armes, Roy. Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Indiana University Press, August 23, 2010. ISBN 0253004594, 9780253004598. p. 131.
- ^ Armes, p. 183
- ^ Armes, p. 186